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Tributes Mount: 'Gentleman, Class Act' Northern Valley Athletic Director Tom Kaechele Dies Tributes Mount: 'Gentleman, Class Act' Northern Valley Athletic Director Tom Kaechele Dies
Tributes Mount: 'Gentleman, Class Act' Northern Valley Athletic Director Tom Kaechele Dies TRIBUTE: It’s a measure of the man that tributes continued to mount – not just from his own school and district – as news spread of the death of Tom Kaechele. Thomas Kaechele, who was the athletic director at Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, was a gentleman, a class act, someone who cared not just for his players but those of their opponents, as well, those who knew him said. He died Sunday after battling an illness. “The light in Bergen County sports shines a little bit less bright today,” wrote Jim Tolomeo Sr. “[It] lost one of the best ADs in the business plus a fine…

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Hackensack YMCA Leaving After 90 Years Hackensack YMCA Leaving After 90 Years
Hackensack YMCA Leaving After 90 Years The Hackensack YMCA will be leaving its Main Street property after 90 years. Financial decline in the last 10 years prompted the Greater Bergen County YMCA to sell the property, it said in a statement released last week. A new location will open in New Milford on April 1. Meanwhile, the Hackensack building is under contract for sale with a development partner. The Y announced in October 2019 that it was working with a local real estate firm, NAI Hanson, to sell the building and identify a new location for a full-facility YMCA. Countless Bergen County residents were raised learning to…

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by Cecilia Levine